Prof. Dr. med. Huldrych Günthard

Area of Research

Description of Research Interest

Prof. Huldrych F. Günthard is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases, is the deputy head of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, head of it’s HIV research laboratory, the president and Principle Investigator of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study, a member of the IAS-USA Antiretroviral Guidelines and Drug Resistance Mutation panel and a member of the research council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

He is a physician-scientist and Professor at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, working as senior consultant in general infectious diseases and HIV-medicine, performing clinical, translational and basic research. His HIV-research focuses mainly on 1) emergence and transmission of drug resistance, 2) antiretroviral therapy, 3) the latent reservoir and residual replication, 4) broadly anti-HIV neutralizing antibodies, 5) transmission/primary HIV-infection, 6) pathogenesis and viral evolution. 7) Co- and sexually transmitted infections. He is interested in all aspects of infectious diseases and HIV-medicine in general. His major aim is to perform multidisciplinary research, bringing together, e.g. basic scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists/statisticians and bioinformatics researchers and strongly fosters international studies. He has authored > 300 peer reviewed scientific articles.

Special Expertise

HIV (Virology / Immunology / Transmission / Treatment / Resistance
Clinical Trials
Epidemioloy / Phylogenetics